Mr. Young has offered to license the Hamilton Tiger-Cats' historical use of the word Tiger to Apple free of charge. The Hamilton Tigers Football Club, established in 1869, continued to be known as the Tigers (with its colours of yellow and black) until 1950, when the Tigers merged with the Hamilton Wildcats to become the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

"136 years ago we were called The Tigers," Mr. Young said. "If anyone owns the exclusive rights to the word "tiger" with that much history and tradition, it's gotta be us."

As nice as the gesture is I think Jobs will keep this in his back pocket for now. I have to imagine the man is livid over this and probably wants to medieval on Tiger Direct's butt at some point with a counter suit.. I know I would and I dont even have an ego a quarter the size of Steve's.

Am I the only one a bit freaked out by the fact that there are three posts, from three users, all in a row, and that all have "gems" with reflections on them?

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I apologise for that post but I really couldn't stop laughing at the apparent drama that is unfolding. First, TigerDirect sues the day before Apple launches OS 10.4 which is obvious that they just want some dough (and even worse is that the lawsuit is based on some internet search engine result.....). Then someone came along and tore up TigerDirect ticket to stardom in a single stroke. Mr Young just show Systemax how absurd their lawsuit is, single-handedly.

While Mr. Young's gesture is...ehhh...cute, it should have no bearing on this matter. The issue is not that the word "tiger" has been trademarked (patented, whatever), the problem arises from the similarity of the two Tigers. Albeit thin, the link between computer software and computer reseller is at least present. The link between tiger baseball and tiger computer is wholly non-existant.

Its the same as the possible G6 controversy between car maker and computer maker.

"136 years ago we were called The Tigers," Mr. Young said. "If anyone owns the exclusive rights to the word "tiger" with that much history and tradition, it's gotta be us."

A simple Google search tuner up this.
Just remember, we Brits can outdate all of ya's!

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The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment can trace its history back to 1572 when Queen Elizabeth I reviewed the Trained Bands of London, from which the 3rd of Foot descended. The Regiment's precedence in the British Army dates from the raising of the 2nd of Foot in 1661 for the defence of Tangier acquired by King Charles II on his marriage to Princess Catherine of Braganza. The nickname "The Tigers" comes from the 67th Foot (South Hampshire Regiment). Having served 21 years unbroken service in India, under active service conditions, King George IV authorised the Tiger sleeve badge in 1826.

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